Our Accomplishments

EJUSA has been a longtime leader in the movement to repeal the death penalty, partnering with state organizations in over a two-dozen states over the years. EJUSA has played a central role in many of the nation's most successful state campaigns, including:

Organizing

Trained organizers and local groups in over two-dozen states, through training retreats, workshops, and on site facilitation.

Deployed or funded on-the-ground field organizers in Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Georgia, Washington State, North Carolina, and Florida over the years.

Developed or assisted repeal and moratorium efforts in more than 30 states.

Pioneered the grassroots organizing strategy that has sparked moratorium resolution campaigns from North Carolina to California and dozens of states in between.

Recruited and/or tallied 4,837 faith communities, organizations, local businesses, and other groups to call for a moratorium on executions, including 152 local governments, such as New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Nashville, and Atlanta. Maintained the National Tally of moratorium endorsers to track resolutions across the country.

Produced and distributed 5,000 organizing packets with educational materials and other tools for organizers to use in their communities.

Developed new workshops and model organizing projects to help states reach out to unlikely allies, including law enforcement, victims’ family members and victims’ service providers, and conservatives.

A series of investigative reports focused on Pennsylvania: Green County Supermax: Pennsylvania's Human Rights Nightmare; Trampling the Public Trust: Philadelphia Police Abuses; and The Judge Who Became Death Row's King: Philadelphia's Judge Sabo.

Direct assistance to prisoners and their families

The following activities were undertaken by EJUSA programs that are still housed at our former parent organization, the Quixote Center.

Sparked the exoneration of Jeffrey Deskovic, an innocent man who spent 19 years in prison in New York for a rape and murder he did not commit, by advocating for Jeffrey within the legal community until we found lawyers at the Innocence Project who agreed to take his case via the Grassroots Investigation Project/National Death Row Assistance Network.